NCT05294874

Gait Rehabilitation in Diplegic Children

Gait Rehabilitation in Ambulant Diplegic Children Using BOTOX and Ankle Weights

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Background: Standing and walking serve an individual's basic need to move from place to place, and both are the most common activities that people do on a daily basis. Aim: to investigate the combined effect of botulinum toxin A (BoNT-A) injection and ankle weight on the gait of diplegic children who are using Ankle foot orthoses.

Detailed description

Methods: Sixty children with spastic diplegia were included in this prospective, controlled trial. Children were divided into three groups, each with 20 patients: Group 1 received classical gait rehabilitation; Group 2 received the same gait training while adding ankle weight ; and Group 3 received the same as group 2 plus botulinum toxin injection. The Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS),knee range-of-motion measures, and Hoffman /Myogenic reflex ratio were used to examine patients before the commencement of treatment and post-treatment.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy
• Spastic Diplegia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	gait training	walking forward, sideway and backward walking on balance board

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-07-15
• Primary completion: 2021-11-14
• Completion: 2021-11-25
• First posted: 2022-03-24
• Last updated: 2022-03-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt